Your Professional Indemnity Specialists www.brian-thornhill.co.uk Design & Construct Professional Indemnity Insurance Proposal Form Please complete this form in BLOCK CAPITALS IMPORTANT INFORMATION This proposal form must be completed and signed by a Principal, Partner or Director of the Proposer. The person completing and signing the form should be authorised by the Proposer to do so and should make all necessary enquiries of his fellow Partners, Directors and Employees to enable all the questions to be answered. You MUST complete all sections of this Proposal Form. 704 Huddersfield Road - Ravensthorpe - West Yorkshire Phone: 01924 499182 Fax: 08008 818841 E-mail: info@brian-thornhill.co.uk Page 1
1) Company Details: Trading Name: Design & Construct Proposal Form The completion of this form in no way binds the Proposer to purchase insurance, nor does it bind Underwriters to give insurance. Any information given will only be passed to Underwriters for the purpose of quotation and will be treated as confidential. Address: Contact Numbers: Tel: Fax: Mobile: Email Address: Website Address: Company Establishment Date: 2) Principals / Directors / Partners Details: Full Name of Principal / Director / Partner Qualifications Date Qualified How long with Proposer 3) If cover is required for your previous Businesses (Predecessor Practices), please provide details: Trading Name Start Date End Date Reason for cessation 4) Please state total numbers of: Principals / Directors / Partners Professionally Qualified Architects, Engineers, Surveyors Other Technical or Qualified Staff Others TOTAL 5) Full description of Company Activities: Page 2
6) Please give details of the 5 largest contracts undertaken where there is design liability, whether direct or contingent, where construction has commenced during the last 5 years: Start Date Approximate Completion Date Company Contract Value TOTAL Contract Value Description of Services Performed 7) Please give details of 5 typical contracts where there is design liability, whether direct or contingent, where construction has commenced during the last 5 years: Start Date Approximate Completion Date Company Contract Value TOTAL Contract Value Description of Services Performed 8) Please state for each of the following, the approximate percentages of the total work carried out by the Design and Consulting department in the last financial year: Architectural % Civil Engineering % Structural Engineering % Mechanical Engineering % Electrical Engineering % Heating & Ventilation Engineering % Chemical Engineering % Soil Engineering % Nuclear Engineering % Surveying % Other: % 100% Page 3
9) Please state for each of the following, the approximate percentages of the total work carried out by the Design and Consulting department in the last financial year: Design Only Design and Construction Home Building Individually Designed % % Multiple Low Rise % % Multiple High Rise % % Modular (repetitive design) % % Public/Commercial Buildings Hospitals % % Schools/Universities % % Offices/Retail/Warehouses % % Engineering Construction Highways % % Bridges/Tunnels/Dams % % Harbours/Jetties % % Sewage/Water Schemes % % Industrial Power/Manufacturing Plants % % Refineries/Petrochemical Installations % % Mechanical Plant/Bulk Handling Equipment % % Industrial Building Systems % % Other: % % TOTAL 100% 100% 10)Please provide details of any substantial changes and major new projects being undertaken during the next 12 months: Page 4
11) Please state Company Total Gross Turnover for each of the last 5 completed years: Year End UK Contract Overseas Contracts 12) Please breakdown your Turnover as follows: A Turnover where the Firm designs and constructs from its own design and provides full technical supervision B Fees where the Firm provides design and technical services only (i.e. no construction is undertaken by the Firm) C Fees where the Firm provides project management or supervision of construction services only (i.e. no construction is undertaken by the Firm) (d) D (e) Turnover where the Firm constructs from others design performed on behalf of the Firm (i.e. where there is a contingent design liability) E Turnover where the Firm constructs from others design and others technical supervision Last Complete Financial Year Current Financial Year Estimate UK Overseas UK Overseas F Other turnover not mentioned above (please provide details on separate letterhead) - these activities will not normally be covered TOTAL 13) Does the Turnover declared in Question 12) Section F) relate to any Advisory or Design Services? If YES please provide details, including the approximate Turnover involved: 14) Do you engage in, or are you responsible for, the manufacture or fabrication of any pre-engineered unit? If YES please provide details and explain where the relevant Turnover has been declared in Question12): Page 5
15) Please provide more details of the work undertaken in the past 3 years: Please note own project value refers to the total value of the proposer s proportion of the total project (not just the fee element) Civil Engineering Average total single project value of jobs undertaken in last 3 years Highest total single project value of an Highest own single project value of an Average total single project value of jobs undertaken in last 3 years Structural Engineering Highest total single project value of an Highest own single project value of an Average total single project value of jobs undertaken in last 3 years Building Services Engineering Highest total single project value of an Highest own single project value of an 16) Do you ensure that any consultants for which you are responsible have a Professional Indemnity policy in force? 17) Do you have a formal quality assurance or control programme in force? If YES please provide details: 18) Does any client or contract represent more than 50% of your annual work? 19) Have you ever failed to complete a project? If YES please provide details: 20) Does the work carried out consist of well established techniques? If NO please provide details: 21) Does the Company or any Principal / Director / Partner have any association with or financial interest in any other Practice, Company or Organisation? If YES please provide details of the nature of the Association together with the Name and Business of the Third Party: Page 6
22) Claims Information: Have any claims in respect of the risks to which this form relates ever been made against the business or any of the Principals? Are any of the Principals, Partners or Directors, AFTER FULL ENQUIRY, aware of any circumstances which might give rise to any such claim? Has any proposal in respect of the risk to which this form relates ever been declined or has any such insurance ever been cancelled or renewal been refused? If YES to any of the above please provide full details on a separate letterhead 23) Do you currently hold Professional Indemnity Insurance? 24) Current Professional Indemnity Policy Details (DO NOT ANSWER IF A RENEWAL WITH PINSURE LIMITED): Current Insurer: Renewal Date: Limit of Indemnity: Basis of Limit of Indemnity: Excess: Premium: 25) What Limit of Indemnity and Excess do you require? Limit of Indemnity Excess 26) Any Other Material Information? Please read this paragraph carefully before signing the declaration: It is essential that every Proposer or Insured when seeking a quotation to take out or renew any insurance discloses to the prospective Insurers all material facts and information (including all material circumstances) which might influence the judgment of an underwriter in deciding whether to accept the risk and on what terms. The obligation to provide this information continues up until the time that there is a completed contract of insurance. Failure to do so entitles the Insurers, if they so wish, to avoid the contract of insurance from inception and so enables them to repudiate liability thereunder. If you have any doubt as to what constitutes a material fact or circumstance please do not hesitate to ask for advice. DECLARATION I/we declare that, after full enquiry, the contents of this proposal are true and that I/we have not misstated, omitted or suppressed any material fact or information. I/we agree that this proposal together with any other information supplied by me/us shall form the basis of any contract of insurance which may be effected. If there is any material alteration to the facts and information which I/we have provided or any new material matter arises before the completion of the contract of insurance, I/we undertake to inform Insurers. I/we hereby consent to any information I/we have provided being processed by you for the purposes of providing insurance and claims handling, which may necessitate sharing such information with third parties. Brian Thornhill & Son Insurance Brokers may use this information for marketing (by post, telephone, e-mail or fax) subject to the conditions of the Data Protection Act. If you do not wish these details to be used for marketing please inform Brian Thornhill & Son Insurance Brokers in writing. Under the Data Protection Act 1998 you have the right to access or amend the information we hold about you. If you would like to exercise either of these rights please contact Pinsure Ltd Signature of Principal / Director / Partner Date Page 7